[Ffmpeg-devel] Cedocida DV-Codec

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 10:58:13PM -0500, Mark Rages wrote:
> On 8/26/05, Steven M. Schultz <sms at 2bsd.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Mark Rages wrote:
> > 
> > > The ffmpeg DV encoder is too slow for my purpose (I want to decode,
> > > process and re-encode in real time).  From a quick look through the
> > 
> >         Need a faster system :)
> > 
> >         I see 147 frames/sec decoding with ffmpeg (2GHz G5 PPC) - that should
> >         leave plenty of time for encoding.  Haven't fired up the Opteron system
> >         to see what it'd do.
> > 
> 
> Decoding is fast, it's encoding that is slow.  I'm on an "AMD
> Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+" system.  Decoding takes no time at all.
> 
> I don't know enough assembly to know if Cedocida is AMD64 friendly or
> not.  That's why I'm asking here. Obviously, AMD64 support would be
> rather important to me...

I really doubt this other implementation is worth bothering with,
except maybe to lift a few optimized functions. Porting external code
into lavc results in lots of bloat and code duplication, since the
toolkit of dsp functions already in lavc won't get used. I expect the
lavc encoder just needs some optimization, and then it will be
perfectly fine on its own.

Rich